Thursday March 03, 2005

A need for an editor to remap your keyboard? Is there a need for an editor to redefine the mapping of your keyboard? It's just a curiousity. From answers that I can get back via the emailing conventional way, I gathered there are mainly 2 groups: * Just use the "keyboard layout switching applet in Gnome":http://projects.gnome.hu/gkb/ , and most users are happy with that. * For more fine tweaking, users will just use xkb to remap some keys, and these are normally the really uber-geek folks (as I found out that xkb is somewhat complicated to get to work if creating a new layout, whilst getting lost in its directory structure ). Some folks just stick to xmodmap to mainly change the Caps Lock and Control key. There are many 3rd party ones, but not that many (near non-existent) OS ones out there for fine grain tweaking. Or is it just a nice to have thing at the end of the day. For me, it would help alot, as I dealt with alot of enquiries about keyboard layouts, and we "support alot of keyboard layouts":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2521/6mi67tj40?a=view . ( Mar 03 2005, 11:28:00 AM GMT ) Permalink Comments [3]

Saturday January 29, 2005

Changing layout of a keyboard Link I found while I was browsing : * (From Sunsolve)"How to change the layout of the keyboard":http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-70986-1 * "Solaris quick reference":http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/Resources/Computing/SunGroup/Info/QuickRef/Keyboard/ (explains the types of keyboards, keysyms, how to configure a keyboard, using Swiss-German as an example, with xmodmap. ( Jan 29 2005, 06:42:43 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]

Monday January 24, 2005

New keyboard software support in Solaris 10 Following are the keyboard layouts that are new in Solaris 10, and can be found in "Solaris 10 Release Notes":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0552/6mgbi4fgs?a=view (information on how to set the layout) : * Estonian Keyboard Type 6 * French Canadian Keyboard Type 6 * Polish Programmers Keyboard Type 5 You can find new language support enhancement in "What's new in Solaris 10":http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547/6mgbdbsmr?a=view as well. ( Jan 24 2005, 06:04:32 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [1]